Felipe Otalora
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Development Developer
Felipe has been a software developer for eight years and has worked in startup environments, both as an employee and a cofounder. As a co-founder, he founded a YCombinator-backed company that received 1.7 million USD in funding and grew to over 20 employees and over 100 companies as customers, including Rappi. Felipe has experience leading teams, growing and hiring, understanding, creating, and launching products, and, of course, coding them.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Slack
The most amazing...
...experience was co-founding a YCombinator-backed company that received $1.7 million in funding and has over 100 companies as customers.
Work Experience
Co founder and Chief Growth Officer
Treble.ai
- Co-founded the company as a first-time founder. Helped raise $1.7 million in funding and grew the company from $1,000 in MRR (May 2019) to $50,000 in MRR by Feb 2021.
- Coded the initial product, which now handles a volume of 7,000,000 WhatsApp conversations per month, totaling over 20,000,000 messages from customers in over 10 different countries (per month).
- Closed over 20 new deals from January 2020 to July 2020, netting over $15,000 in additional MRR.
- Launched WhatsApp Sync, a Chrome extension for storing WhatsApp web conversations in HubSpot. Receives 50 new installations daily, totaling 2,000 current installations in 50+ countries from January 2021.
Full-stack Engineer
Mercadoni
- Developed, primarily with React, more than 40% of the modules of the new version of the site that serves more than 1,200 customers daily.
- Refactored the main client API. Worked on a project to improve the response times on some of the endpoints of the API, lowering some from minutes to less than a second. Deployed microservices using Docker Swarm.
- Belonged to a team of eight engineers (out of 40 in the entire technology department) that focused on customer experience.
Full-stack Engineer
Inalambria
- Contributed to a project consisting of an SMS survey system. The system sent over 10,000 SMS surveys to healthcare users in Colombia. Primarily worked with React.
- Worked on the main system that linked the company’s SMS API, both MO and MT, to send and receive responses from users and answer messages. In total, 500,000 SMS were sent during the duration of the project.
- Developed a custom infrastructure for a decision tree system that would allow for custom surveys.
Software Engineer
Produccion Aparte
- Created websites for customers using both the Jumla and WordPress framework adding support for multiple WordPress plugins like WooCommerce.
- Maintained existing code and architecture of the different projects that were being developed. This involved updating JavaScript and HTML code.
- Implemented design changes made on plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using design material presented by the UI team in Illustrator.
Project Leader
Universidad de los Andes
- Developed the React front-end web application that serviced 10,000 students from the university.
- Developed a chat system using web sockets used by 100 people, and worked on introducing new features.
- Developed and designed an iOS carpool application with the university and the web application for allowing users to request trips from other users.
Experience
Treble.ai
https://treble.aiHelped raise $1.7 million in funding. The company grew from $1,000 in MRR (May 2019) to $50,000 in MRR by Feb 2021.
I coded the initial product, which now handles a volume of 7 million WhatsApp conversations per month, totaling over 20 million messages from customers over 10 different countries. I coded the back-end application in Python, Celery, and Flask, now a Lambda AWS Serverless application handling 20 million transactions per month.
As the chief growth officer, I managed a team of 10 people and created new experiments and iterations for increasing revenue.
Skills
Languages
CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Python, HTML5, Python 3, Java, SQL, PHP, Swift, Bash
Frameworks
Redux
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js
Tools
Slack, Celery, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, RabbitMQ
Paradigms
Management, Agile, Kanban, Scrum
Platforms
MacOS, WordPress, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, iOS, Joomla
Other
Web MVC, APIs, Projects, Software Development, Data Structures, Algorithms, SMS, CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless, Data Transfer Objects (DTO), WebSockets, Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Developer
Storage
Redis, Data Pipelines, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá, Colombia
Certifications
Agile Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban & XP
Udemy
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